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OU Libraries’ History of Science digital collection began with several hundred 15th- through 18th-century rare books, maps, and other items digitized for the 2015-2016 Galileo’s World exhibition. They range from art, music, astronomy, and meteorology through natural history, the human body, microscopy, physics, and engineering, and on to religion and travels to China and the Americas. All images in the digital collection have been released to the public domain. When using images from this collection, please include the following attribution statement: Image(s) courtesy History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma.

De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes, maximis impensis et vigiliis elaborati, adiectis earvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus, nunquam antea ad naturae imitationem artificiosius effictis & expressis
Leonharto Fvchsio ... autore ... Accessit ... ijs succincta admodum uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio. Vna cum quadruplici indice, quorum primus quidem stirpium nomenclaturas graecas, alter latinas, tertius officinis seplasiariorum & herbarijs usitatas, quartus germanicas continebit., Col. title vignette.
Ioannis Keppleri Harmonices mvndi libri v. Appendix habet comparationem huius operis cum Harmonices Cl. Ptolemi libro III, cumque Roberti de Fluctibus, dicti Flud. medici oxoniensis speculationibus harmonicis, operi de Macrocosmo & microcosmo insertis. A
Strata identified by organized fossils, containing prints on colored paper of the most characteristic specimens in each stratum.
Bound with the author's Stratigraphical system of organized fossils. London, 1817.
Abbildung und Beschreibung deß wunderwürdigen unvergleichlichen Cometen : der erstmals zu Anfang deß Wintermonats vor Aufgang der Sonnen erschienen, und anjetzt nach derselben Untergang sich entsetzlich sehen lässet.
Illustration of town's people viewing the Great Comet of 1680, which was the first comet to be discovered by telescope and the comet used by Isaac Newton to test Kepler's laws of planetary motion., Variant of broadsheet printed by Schollenberger in Nuremberg in 1680., Mounted on late nineteenth-century thick paper., Stamp on mounting paper: Sammlung Hans Hopf.
The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of Megara.
Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung by H. Billingsley ... Whereunto are annexed certaine scholies, annotations, and inuentions of the best mathematiciens ... With a ... preface made by M. I. Dee, specifying the chiefe mathematicall scieces, what they are, and wherunto commodius: where, also, are disclosed certaine new secrets mathematicall and mechanicall, vntill these our daies greatly missed., Engraved t.p., Many errors in numbering of leaves., Portrait of the printer, J. Daye, above the imprint on last page., "The sixtenth booke of the Elementes of geometrie, added by Flussas": leaves 445-464.
Martis circa axem proprium reuolubilis obseruationes Bononiae
Discusses the dark areas of Mars, Mars' rotation and markings., a Io. Dominico Cassino habitae., Cover title., Issued as three separate reports, but forming one bibliographic unit., The second report has a caption title: De alijs Romanis obseruationibus macularum Martis., The third report has caption title: De periodo quotidianæ reuolutionis Martis., Initials., In slipcase.
A natural history of the Crinoidea, or, Lily-shaped animals : with observations on the genera, Asteria, Euryale, Comatula & Marsupites, illustrated with fifty coloured plates
by J.S. Miller., Includes index to plates., Each plate is accompanied by descriptive text.
Iofranci Offvsii germani philomatis, de divina astrorum facultate, in laruatam astrologiam.
Leaves numbered on recto.
Iofranci Offvsii germani philomatis, de divina astrorum facultate, in laruatam astrologiam.
Leaves numbered on recto.
Naturalis historia.
Title from caption of Book I (folio 2b); book II has caption ti. (folio 18a): C. Plinii Secvndi Natvralis historiae liber secvndus inci[pit]., Edition attributed to Philippus Beroaldus by Goff only., Imprint from colophon (folio 352b) with date: ... Anno Natiutatis Domini. M.CCCC.LXXXIII. Die Sexta Mensis Iunii., Spaces left for initials generally have guide-letter., Running titles., Caption title (sig. aaiii verso): Caii plynii secvndi natvralis hystoriae liber primvs., "Correctiones" and "Registrvm hvivs operis": last 3 leaves., Manuscript notations in margins.
Micrographia nova : sive Nova & curiosa variorum minutorum corporum singularis cujusdam & noviter ab autore [sic] inventi microscopii ope adauctorum & miranda magnitudine repræsentatorum descriptio tam utilitatis quam jucunditatis gratia additis eorum fig
publicata à Joh. Francisco Griendelio ab Ach.
De materia medica.
Leaf [1]: Pedacii Dioscoridis De medicinali materia. Lib. primus [-nonus] Io. Rvellio interprete ..., First preliminary leaf: Index vocvm ferè omnium quæ passim in corollariis Hermolai Barbari, annotationibus M. Verg. ipsiusq[ue] Dioscoridis simplicium descriptione continentur., Text in Greek and Latin., Includes index., Imprint from colophon., Bookplate of Christopher and Lady Sophia Tower.